Fellows in Residence

Dance

Jennifer Harge

Choreographer, artist, and educator – United States

Jennifer Harge is an artist and educator based in Detroit, Michigan. Using movement as an organizing principle, she spills across choreography, installation, film, and language—collapsing form and gifting herself the freedom to play, wander, and be with multiplicity. Her creative research conjures and theorizes Black pleasures and longings through intimate collaborations with her ancestral lineages and direct arts community.

FLY | DROWN is a storytelling project honoring Black women’s self-sovereignty. Told from the perspective of Black women’s flesh, dreams, homes, and prayers, FLY | DROWN is a world where Black women can simply be. Harge is currently developing a new chapter introducing JJ LOVE: a Black, queer auntie from everywhere and nowhere, who centers Black women’s sexuality as a “tender space of sanctuary, self-imagination, intimacy and creative play… (Jennifer C. Nash, 2018).”

Film/Video

Giovanni Piperno

Film director, photographer – Italy

After studying photography at the European Institute of Design and with Leonard Freed (Magnum), Giovanni Piperno worked as a camera assistant on Italian and international films. Since 1994, he has directed numerous documentaries, tv programs, and short films. The latest documentary 16 millimeters to the revolution was presented at the 41st Torino Film Festival and was released in theaters in February 2024. Piperno teaches documentary at the C.S.C. of Rome and at the Gian Maria Volonté Cinema School.

Giovanni Piperno wishes to make a film to show how much talent and energy can be found among young people in the Italian suburbs. In 2015/16, he and his team conducted a workshop in the Tor Sapienza neighborhood of Rome, producing three short films. These stories inspired a film, and they developed a script with the participants. Today, the script needs updating to reflect contemporary music, the impact of social media on young people's lives, and a different area of Italy.

Humanities Scholarship

Jonah Siegel

(Literature Scholarship) – Distinguished Professor of English, Rutgers University – United States

Jonah Siegel is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. His books include Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art (2000), Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition (2005), The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources (2008), Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After (2020), and Overlooking Damage: Art, Display, and Loss in Times of Crisis (2022).

Why is contemporary culture so fascinated by art collections at risk or destroyed? How did the museum go from being a site of promise to a location of trauma or remorse? At Bogliasco, Jonah will be working on the Introduction to The Sadness of Curators, a study of the ways in which concepts of collecting and display manifested in popular culture — including films, streaming media, and novels—as well as in recent controversies about restitution may be traced to important sources in earlier eras.

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Dance

Nichole Canuso

Choreographer – United States

Nichole Canuso’s dedication to dance manifests as performances, installations, films and intimate dialogues. Her projects often use technology to bring performers and audiences together in tender exchanges. Her work has been awarded fellowships (Pew fellow 2017; New York Stage & Film fellow 2021) and presented nationally (New York Live Arts, American Repertory Theater, Los Angeles Performance Practice) and internationally (Hungary, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Czech Republic).

While in residence Nichole will be developing Lunar Retreat, a multi-sensory, interactive performance installation. Named after the slow, rhythmic inevitability of the growing distance between the earth and the moon, Lunar Retreat explores our individual and communal experiences of the cycles of caretaking, loss and transformation. Choreographic prompts on headphones will guide participants into a labyrinthine performance experience in which they can explore and reflect both alone and together.

Film/Video

Tamar Baruch

Filmmaker – Israel

Tamar Baruch is a filmmaker born in 1987 in Haifa, Israel. Drawing on her experience as a first-generation immigrant of Tunisian and Iranian descent, she directs her films towards critical human-rights issues, with a particular focus on refugee narratives. Baruch received an M.A. in Documentary Film from NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, where she was a Fulbright fellow, and a B.F.A. in Film from Tel-Aviv University's Steve Tisch School of Film and York University's Film Department.

Tamar Baruch will be working on a new feature-length film set in Senegal. The story centers on a love affair between a French activist and a Senegalese fisherman. The couple migrates to France in hopes of starting a life, but once in France, they struggle to belong. Through this film, Baruch aims to examine the enduring effects of colonialism on Senegalese and French societies, exploring the dissonance and struggle faced by characters caught between different cultural, political, and social worlds.

Humanities Scholarship

Milena Anfosso

(Classics) – Author and Scholar – United States/Italy

Milena Anfosso (PhD, Sorbonne University) has held research appointments at Harvard University and UCLA. Multilingual herself, she has published and lectured on multilingualism in Antiquity, focusing on linguistic interactions among different populations in Anatolia between the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, with a particular interest in ancient curses and black magic. Additionally, Milena has worked on Calabrian dialectology and folklore. Based in Los Angeles, she has served as a linguistic consultant in the entertainment industry and is currently co-authoring a YA fantasy novel.

At Bogliasco, Milena will work on her monograph exploring Timotheus of Miletus’s language in the Persians (late 5th-century BCE), a complex piece of Greek literature that narrates the Battle of Salamis (480 BCE) from the Persians’ perspective. Using her extensive knowledge of Ancient Greek, Phrygian, Lydian, and Old Persian, Milena explains Timotheus’s unusual linguistic choices in terms of sociolinguistic mimesis. She also discusses the strategies that he used to convey the 'otherness' of his characters in comparison with other ancient authors and in the frame of so-called 'New Music.'